Re: usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-21 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Thomas Hood_, on 03/21/04 04:09,typed: 1. You don't need the "down" line. ifdown runs pon and poff for you. OK. 2. The up and post-down commands don't work properly with ppp ifaces. See bug #127786. The problem is that ifup simply runs pon and then the "up" commands; pon r

Re: usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
> #this is for ppp0 configuration > auto ppp0 > iface ppp0 inet ppp > up /etc/iptables/iptables.sh start > provider dsl-provider > down poff -a > post-down /etc/iptables/iptables.sh stop 1. You don't need the "down" line. ifdown runs pon and poff for you.

usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-20 Thread H. S.
(I am using Debian Sarge, running kernel 2.4.24-1-686) I recently installed new version of iptables and noticed it had made some changes to the start up scripts. While going over the documentation, I realized that I can use pre-up and up and down and post-down commands in the /etc/network/inter